Reaction of heptyne with aqueous sulphuric acid containing mercuric sulphate, two products, each having the molecular formula C7H14O, were obtained in approximately equal amounts. a) Write the structures of enol intermediates which formed in the reaction. b) Give the structure of the major and minor final products.
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Organomagnesium halides are Grignard reagents. Francois Auguste Victor Grignard, a French chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912, created these highly useful reagents.
QUESTION 1
Reaction of heptyne with aqueous sulphuric acid containing mercuric sulphate, two products, each
having the molecular formula C7H14O, were obtained in approximately equal amounts.
a) Write the structures of enol intermediates which formed in the reaction.
b) Give the structure of the major and minor final products.
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